Publications by authors named "R G Haire"

The objective was to study plutonium partitioning between immobile and mobile humic materials at the water-solid interfaces. Immobilization of the humic materials on solid supports was performed in situ using self-adhesive silanized humic derivatives. The presence of the humic adlayers on solid supports was shown to significantly enhance Pu sorption and its retention under both steady state and dynamic conditions.

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The polymeric immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor (pIgR) is an integral transmembrane glycoprotein that plays an important role in the mammalian immune response by transporting soluble polymeric Igs across mucosal epithelial cells. Single pIgR genes, which are expressed in lymphoid organs including mucosal tissues, have been identified in several teleost species. A single pigr gene has been identified on zebrafish chromosome 2 along with a large multigene family consisting of 29 pigr-like (PIGRL) genes.

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  • Single crystals of Np2Se5 were synthesized using a reaction with Np and Se at high temperature in an Sb2Se3 flux, and its structure was analyzed using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, revealing a tetragonal configuration with unique positions for Np and two Se types.
  • The structure features one-dimensional chains of Se(1) atoms and a distinct Se(2) anion, with each Np atom coordinated to 10 Se atoms, contributing to a complex three-dimensional arrangement.
  • X-ray absorption measurements show a shift in edge position indicating different oxidation states, and magnetic susceptibility tests reveal that Np2Se5 exhibits ferromagnetic ordering below 18 K, while above this temperature it acts as a
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The novel immune-type receptors (NITRs), which have been described in numerous bony fish species, are encoded by multigene families of inhibitory and activating receptors and are predicted to be functional orthologs to the mammalian natural killer cell receptors (NKRs). Within the zebrafish NITR family, nitr9 is the only gene predicted to encode an activating receptor. However, alternative RNA splicing generates three distinct nitr9 transcripts, each of which encodes a different isoform.

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